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Engineers not taking initiative?

Having a hard time hiring and retaining top talent?

Experience

Jean is a co-founder of Co Leadership, a leadership development company for leaders in tech. She is passionate about sharing her people-centric leadership style with teams from small start-ups to larger companies. Having worked at Google, Pulse, and most recently at tech start-up Medium, Jean brings a wealth of experience in both engineering and coaching to help you get the best out of your engineering team beyond the immediate product cycle or feature release.

Services

Workshops

Experiential workshops for individuals or companies with a strong focus on listening, communication, coaching, and relationship-building skills to raise the bar for leaders in tech. Co Leadership workshops are co-led with Edmond Lau.

coaching

Strategic 1:1s for high-leverage individuals across the team. A unique mix of domain expertise and coaching methodology to level up your engineering leaders and empower the individuals on their teams.

Clients

Jean offers a valuable combination of both tactical help and taking in the bigger picture, tailored to technical managers. For example, she gave me guidance and actionable suggestions on improving our engineering interview process, and asking insightful questions to reframe how I was assessing a broader situation.

— Alicia Liu, Head of Engineering at Nava

Jean is a high-integrity leader who built up a huge degree of trust from her reports and peers. She worked alongside myself and other engineering leaders to scale the team; her influence was clearly visible, stretching beyond code to everything from on boarding, to hiring, to management principles and practices. Her pragmatic, process oriented nature, and insight into people’s motivations and fears, allowed her to solve ambiguous problems with complex tradeoffs.

— Dan Pupius, former head of engineering at Medium

Jean is empathetic, insightful, and dedicated to the people she works with.

— Emma zhou, senior software engineer at medium

Jean is one of the best writers on engineering leadership out there, and her advice is grounded in experience and experimentation at high-growth companies. She is a fantastic mentor for startups and engineering leaders and I’d recommend her very highly.